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New title aims to find place in Dublins heart

A NEW morning newspaper, the Dublin Daily, is due to be published on Tuesday. Marketing itself as a quality tabloid, it aims to appeal to upwardly mobile Dubliners.

Colm Grealy, its managing director, has compared the title to the Daily Mail in Britain, The Boston Herald in America and a number of Scandinavian papers. The newspaper will be based in Fairview, Dublin, and will employ 40 people. It will be printed by the Meath Chronicle in Navan, and have a catchment population of 1.5m.

The business is chaired by Paschal Taggart, one of the founders of Ireland on Sunday, and part-owned by Archant, a British regional media group. The Monday-Friday paper is aiming for a circulation of 25,000 in the first year and 33,000 in the second.

Liam Hayes, the editor, said: “The formula is tried and trusted and works in every other major city in Europe and in the